Pius XII on the Missing Red Lamp of the Real Presence

Posted by Taylor Marshall 

I don't know about you, but since I've become Catholic, I have been alarmed by the "dislocation" of the Holy Eucharist within Catholic churches. Sometimes I go into a church and I can't find the tabernacle. It's scandalous and heartbreaking. Why must He be hidden? "Where have they taken Him?"

I recently came across this quote from Eugene Cardinal Pacelli in 1931, the future Pope Pius XII. It's profoundly prophetic and worth quoting and full:

“I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul...I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.”

“A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’”

Wow. Very powerful words. "A day will come when...Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them."

If we claim to have Jesus at the center of hearts, isn't it time we made sure that He is at the center of our churches? Return the tabernacles to the high altars!

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!

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The Difference Between the Old Testament Tabernacle and Temple

Posted by Dr. Taylor Marshall 

In the Old Testament, human worship was originally held at handmade altars. We see this pattern with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job.

At the time of Moses, God centralized worship at a divinely commanded tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant. This tent was known as the tabernacle. It could be taken down, moved to a new place in the wilderness, and pitched again.

During the time of King David, God gave the plans for a permanent stone tabernacle which is known as the temple. David's son Solomon built this temple in Jerusalem. It was a house of prayer for all nations.

There is a difference in these two places of worship. 

The tabernacle of Moses was built by Jews alone for Jews alone. King Solomon's temple was built by Jews and pagan Sidonians and Tyrenians. Moreover, King Solomon's temple was built to be a "house of prayer for all nations."

The temple reveled to the Jews that God's scope of salvation included all of mankind. When Christ came proclaiming himself as the new Temple of God, he was claiming that He would include both Jews and Gentiles in the cultic worship of God.

In The Crucified Rabbi, we examine how the Catholic Church is the Third and Final Temple because it is the Body of Christ resurrected from the dead. "Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." (Jn 2:19)

The Catholic Church is the locus of true human worship. It is a building constructed of human stones consecrated by the Blood Christ in which the Holy Ghost dwells. This living temple is truly universal, or to use the Greek word, it is truly katholik.

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